Pickle Jar Communications

I thought just share this really useful slidecast on how to create a slidecast. Slidecasting 101 View more presentations from Jonathan Boutelle. (tags: propaganda slideshare)

I occassionally browse online sites where people post projects that they require freelance support for. This morning one caught my eye because it’s right up my street – a small company wanting support to boost their online PR. Great! A small company thinking along the right lines. Many don’t even yet understand the benefits of [...]

Tomorrow I’m helping out at a session at the University of Warwick introducing students to communicating through video. During the three hour session they will be tasked with filming and editing their own short video. I’m being drafted in to help advise them on planning a video production. I thought it might be worth sharing [...]

Anyone using Microsoft Word 2007 might have noticed that it has a blog post option on it, so I thought I’d give it a go for my blog. I’m travelling on the train at the moment so even with 3G card in laptop, connection is a little flakey so this could be a useful alternative [...]

I’ve been reading this blog this morning by Samuel Bradley giving tips to college students on using Twitter (though the tips could extend beyond that audience). Bradley advises: Don’t simply link to your Facebook bio if there’s anything on your profile that you wouldn’t show in front of the class. Rule of thumb: If a [...]

I’ve been playing around quite nicely with my new flipvideo camera recently, mostly for personal use though I’m sure it won’t be long before it’s put to good business use too. Last week I attended a close friend’s wedding in Ireland. I took the flipvideo camera along and within 12 hours of stumbling to bed [...]